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DryTimes

How come when you go to light it without puffing on it and it flames for a few seconds,

that it doesn't begin to smoke until the fire expires?

 

pkster8235

There's usually excess paper at the end, and paper is flammable.. You have to have fire to get smoke.. it's just like when you burn an incense stick.

When your joint catches fire just blow it out and start puffing.

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DryTimes

sorry if I was unclear.

Let's use incense for example.


You light it up. After you remove the lighter and the incense is still flaming from getting lit. The incense does not produce smoke UNTIL the flame goes away. Then it begins to smoke after no more flaming.

Why is this?

why isn't there smoke and fire all at once?

chadwick

cause the slow burning is what allows the smoke to not be immediatly carried up into the sky and disapear, next time you have a bic flic the flint and you will see smoke now flic it so you get a flame, you will see the smoke being carried up much faster than normal and it will be much less visible

Buzzby

Smoke is a byproduct of incomplete combustion. When something is burning freely with adequate fuel and oxygen, no smoke is produced.

Look at a fire in a fireplace some time. If it's burning right, the heat distills the volatiles out of the wood and they burn completely. If you close down the damper or otherwise interrupt the flow of air, some of these volatiles don't ignite and you get smoke.

You don't smoke burning marijuana. You smoke smoldering marijuana.

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